Egyptian Tales compiled by David Mackenzie
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Plot Points
- Pharaoh was exceedingly wealthy and had a large vault built
- One builder put a fake block in wall to come and steal later
- Builder dies but tells sons about block
- Sons rob the pharaoh blind
- Pharaoh gets mad and sets traps in vault
- Trap catches one brother in vault
- Other brother cuts entrapped brother's head off and escapes
- Pharaoh is confused by the scene and has the decapitated body hanged outside
- The living son tells his mother of their deeds and she demands he recover his brother's body, lest she tell the pharaoh
- He goes and gets the guards of the body very drunk and steals the body back, and also shaves the hair off the right side of the guards was they are passed out drunk
- Infuriated, the pharaoh sends out his daughter to discover the thief
- She finds him and convinces him to confess the crimes
- Once she has found him out, she attempts to drag him off, but he held out the severed arm of his brother and she takes that instead
- Impressed by the thief, pharaoh offers him a pardon and his wife in marriage
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